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Supreme Court of India

Jeet Ram v. The Narcotics Control Bureau, Chandigarh

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Bench Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M. R. Shah JJ.
Decided 15 September 2020

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, we are of the view that the judgment of the High Court does not suffer from any infirmity so as to interfere with the judgment of conviction.

Judgment, page 14

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Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 – ss.20, 50 and 54 – Appellant was charged u/s.20 – Acquitted by trial court – Convicted by High Court – On appeal, held: Findings recorded by trial court are contrary to the evidence on record – s.50 is applicable only in case of personal search – No basis for the findings recorded by trial court that there was non-compliance of provision u/s.50 – Depositions of prosecution witnesses are trustworthy and cannot be said to be unnatural and improbable – No suggestion of tampering of the samples was put either to PW-1 or PW-2 – It is always open…

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